Beaverbrook

Beaverbrook

1st Baron, title of William Maxwell Aitken. 1879--1964, British newspaper proprietor and Conservative politician, born in Canada, whose newspapers included the Daily Express; minister of information (1918); minister of aircraft production (1940--41)

He was evidently extremely anxious that Lord Beaverbrook should join in the remaining consultations and arrive aboard the Prince of Wales at the earliest possible moment, and indeed the delay and difficulty in this respect caused him much concern.

In order to facilitate the many transactions of works of art that would be necessary to build up the collection, Lord Beaverbrook established the First and, shortly thereafter, the Second Beaverbrook Foundation (represented in this action by its trustees and referred to hereafter as the 'Foundation').

As one of the key negotiators in the political manoeuvres that removed Asquith as prime minister, this venture won 'the little Canadian adventurer' (in Arthur Balfour's words) the sometime title of 'kingmaker', shaped his avid interest in political history and propelled him to the House of Lords in 1917 in his elevation as Lord Beaverbrook.

The Board meeting preceded a focus group on Draft Medication Standards and the Association's 92nd Annual General Meeting hosted at the Crowne Plaza--Fredericton Lord Beaverbrook Hotel on Thursday June 5, 2008.

After jobs in an IT department store and a brokerage company, he started his own Lakota Trading business, in Beaverbrook, Colorado, making the massive fortune which turned him into an epic adventurer, a man raised in the space age with the heart of classical hero.

I was casually reading an announcement of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, NB when this caught my eye--the Gallery had a current exhibit of the paintings and household artefacts of a 19th century Queens County farmer and amateur painter, Anthony Flower

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